Former Washington Football Team Female Employees Demand NFL Release Dan Snyder Investigation Report

Washington Football Team Dan Snyder Investigation And Email Scandal Update

What follows is an existent missive written and posted connected October 13, 2021 by erstwhile Washington Football Team Female Employees, directed to NFL Sponsors and demanding the merchandise of the study detailing the results of the probe of squad proprietor Dan Snyder and the organization’s workplace environment.

The missive comes successful the aftermath of emails involving present erstwhile Washington Football Team President Bruce Allen and that were leaked to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but were lone focused connected 1 person: present erstwhile Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden. The remainder of the substance of this station is the letter, followed by a downloadable record mentation of the document.

By Electronic and First-Class Mail
October 13, 2021

Hans Vestberg
Chairman and CEO
Verizon
One Verizon Way
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

Brendan Whitworth
CEO
Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC
One Busch Place
St. Louis, MO 63118

Andy Jassy
President and CEO
Amazon.com, Inc.
410 Terry Ave North
Seattle, WA 98109

Ramon Laguarta
Chairman and CEO
PepsiCo, Inc.
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

John Donahoe
President and CEO
Nike, Inc.
One Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005

David S. Taylor
Chairman, President and CEO
Procter & Gamble
1 Procter & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Dear Gentlemen:

We constitute to you arsenic leaders of immoderate of the largest firm sponsors of the National Football League (“NFL”) to inquire that, connected behalf of women and intersexual battle survivors everywhere, you request transparency from the League related to its probe of the Washington Football Team (“WFT”). We are erstwhile employees of the WFT, who, on with implicit a 100 others, came guardant during the probe to stock our experiences of harassment, misogyny, and maltreatment astatine the hands of assorted firm executives of the team, including proprietor Daniel Snyder. What has been revealed astir the longtime civilization of the WFT is 1 of the biggest scandals of the #MeToo era.

Last year, the NFL oversaw a 10-month-long probe of the WFT, led by lawyer Beth Wilkinson, and encouraged women and men similar america to travel guardant astatine large idiosyncratic and nonrecreational hazard to assistance the investigators and the NFL successful knowing what happened. One of our goals successful participating successful this probe was to uncover the information and unit meaningful alteration truthful that different women would not person to endure what we and hundreds of others did. We person each crushed to judge that Ms. Wilkinson and her squad did an exhaustive, competent investigation, and that she had each volition of issuing a written study of her findings. Despite Mr. Snyder’s effort to region himself from the toxic culture, we cognize personally that those findings included acts of harassment committed by Snyder himself, including but not constricted to those reported by The Washington Post.

Many entities including The Washington Post, the ACLU, the National Women’s Law Center, and our attorneys Lisa Banks and Debra Katz (who represented implicit 40 erstwhile employees) publically demanded that the NFL merchandise the findings of the investigation, a signifier it had adhered to for astir different investigations. The galore survivors who had travel guardant successful bully religion to stock their experiences deserved to recognize the truth, and to cognize that their information was meaningful and reflected successful the findings. Rather than person a study that would uncover the unpleasant facts astir the WFT and Mr. Snyder, and unit the NFL to respond to requests to marque it public, Commissioner Roger Goodell directed Beth Wilkinson to transmit her findings to him Ms. Wilkinson’s findings, conclusions, oregon recommendations.

After deliberately burying the findings of the investigation, Roger Goodell past fined Mr. Snyder and the WFT $10 million, which amounts to pouch alteration for a antheral supposedly worthy billions. It was besides announced by the squad that Mr. Snyder’s wife, Tanya, would instrumentality implicit dayto-day operations for a play of time, an absurd determination that efficaciously allowed Mr. Snyder to clasp afloat power implicit the organization. Around this time, the League besides made it imaginable for him to get further funds to acquisition his squad outright, allowing him to look from this ungraded stronger than before. The effect of Mr. Goodell’s decisions astir this investigation, and the deficiency of immoderate meaningful enactment against Dan Snyder, is to archer women and survivors everywhere: “You and your experiences bash not substance to the NFL” particularly if those experiences perchance exposure the misdeeds of a precise affluent owner. The NFL has possibly mislaid show of the information that women marque up astir fractional of its instrumentality base.

We telephone connected you arsenic firm citizens and sponsors of the NFL, who ostensibly attraction astir ensuring a workplace for women that is escaped from harassment and abuse, to request transparency from the League related to this scandal. Until a written study is conveyed to the NFL and made public, we volition not cognize the grade of the harm that occurred, oregon the reasons this civilization was allowed to fester for truthful long. Most importantly, we volition not cognize whether the actions taken b3 the WFT are due to code the underlying problems that we, and others similar us, reported to Ms. Wilkinson. As corporations that attraction astir women and equity, some wrong and extracurricular the workplace, and with consumers and shareholders who expect you to uphold these values, you should not beryllium a enactment to the efforts of the NFL to obfuscate the information and to contradict validation to truthful galore brave women and men who came guardant successful the anticipation that the NFL would instrumentality enactment to close a wide wrong.

More recently, the utter nonaccomplishment of the NFL probe and its actions against the WFT was laid bare by the infuriating interrogation fixed by recently installed co-CEO Tanya Snyder, erstwhile she spoke lone of herself and of her family’s “pain” and characterized the hundreds of women who came guardant with communicative aft communicative of maltreatment arsenic “ridiculous.” No 1 of bully conscience could perchance picture these employees oregon their claims arsenic ridiculous if they really knew the contented of the allegations. The NFL, however, has tried to marque definite that volition ne'er happen.

Indeed, conscionable this week, the NFL felt it due to merchandise violative emails from Las Vegas Raiders Coach Jon Gruden, which it obtained during its probe into the WFT, but it continues to garbage to merchandise immoderate accusation oregon findings related to the existent people of that investigation. We bash not recognize wherefore the NFL seems intent connected protecting Dan Snyder and the WFT astatine each costs. That is wherefore we telephone connected you. While the NFL has refused to heed the calls for transparency and accountability from erstwhile WFT employees, advocacy groups, lawyers, oregon the media, it volition person to heed specified a telephone from its firm sponsors. If the League has shown america anything, it is that money, and lone money, talks. We truthful inquire that you articulation america successful insisting connected transparency and accountability, and successful demanding that the NFL marque the findings of this probe public.

Sincerely,

Emily Applegate

Brad Baker

Melanie Coburn

Dominique Dupras

Rachel Engleson

Megan Imbert

Alicia Klein

Ana Nunez

Brittany Pareti

Cara Trotter

WFT Women – Letter to NFL Corporate Sponsors by Zennie Abraham connected Scribd

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